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Quote: Originally posted by romany girl on 17/10/2013

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Try the larger pub chains, Toby carvery, Brewers fayre, Two for one, Vintage Inns, although they are probably not exactly your dream of a small cosy pub with all the trimmings for a fantastic Christmas, they are fairly reasonably priced when it comes to festive food, compared with some places of the small pub type charging in the region of £100 a head for Christmas day lunch local to me. The pub chains food is rather standardised I know, but at least most of it is edible, where as you get no firm guarantee of this with a small pub whos quality depends on the chefs mood and soberness on the day!

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I know we're all different but I find the complete opposite!   I avoid chain pubs like the plague - usually the kitchen staff are young and inexperienced and it tends to be "ping ping" food from boring menus.

Much prefer a small, independent pub with a homely menu - we always go out for Christmas lunch to privately run pubs and have never paid any more than £50 for 4/5 course lunch.  Because I'm vegetarian too, they are always willing to co-operate with menu choice if I warn them in advance of what I can eat!

Quote: Originally posted by purple-ferrets on 19/10/2013

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We are the same we certainly would not do a chain pub on christmas day, we used to go to the lakes and found the most amazing independent pub there there.

We are staying in kilgetty, while we are happy to travel about we don't want to spend the day driving for obvious reasons.

We know of the ferry inn, but have never eaten there, I didn't know it was open for Christmas day.

Thank you for the suggestions we will look into stack pole and the Tudor inn.

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